General Stores and Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 December 1959. Shop, house. 4 related planning applications.
General Stores and Homestead
- WRENN ID
- other-oriel-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 December 1959
- Type
- Shop, house
- Address
- General Stores and Homestead, Maldon Road, Langford, CM9 4SS
- OS grid reference
- TL 838 089
- Coordinates
- 51.74912, 0.66171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The General Stores and Homestead is a shop and attached cottage with early 18th century features. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tiled roof. There is a red brick chimney stack on the right and a square attached rear chimney stack. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring a five-window range on the first floor with three-light casements and transoms to the centre lights. The ground floor also has a five-window range, which includes a 19th century bay shop window with glazing bars and casements with transoms. There is a 20th century shop door with a top light and a pentice board above it. To the right, there are two doors, one of which is a 20th century glazed door, while the far right door has two panels and two lights with a moulded surround and a pentice board above. The small rear wings include a bake house, and there is a single-storey, weatherboarded extension with a red pantiled roof to the left.
Local climate
General Stores and Homestead sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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